Champagne Grand Siècle "Arum" - Laurent Perrier

CUVEE GRAND SIECLE - Champagne LAURENT PERRIER "Arum" edition late 1990's early 2000's

The Grand Siècle cuvée is the prestigious champagne of the Laurent Perrier house. It was created in 1959.
This is a non-vintage cuvée, a rarity among high-end champagnes, but which brings together three exceptional years assembled in accordance with ancestral know-how by uniting the best vintages and the best grape varieties.

It is a champagne with a unique style that is as pleasant to taste now as after a few years of aging.
At WUAT, we have had the opportunity to taste it several times and each time with great pleasure. Among the great vintages, this is our favorite.

The Cuvée Grand Siècle (GC for short) by Laurent Perrier is an exception among the great Champagne vintages.

It is the only one that is not systematically vintage. It is a blend of 3 complementary vintages. One will bring freshness, another structure and a last one aromatic.

"The Grand Siècle vintage is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get" a great man once said.

To help you see things a little more clearly, there are three packagings for three different production periods.

- Bottles with gold labels (Sun King style) and colored caps produced until 1996

- The full black "Arum" bottles, two glossy labels produced between 1996 and 2000

- Full black bottles, matte label produced since.

Since then, many collector's edition variants or vintage numbers N°17, N°24 have been added, but that's another story.

The GC appeals to both great champagne lovers and connoisseurs and to discoverers, you know those who "don't like Champagne because it stings the nose and foams in the stomach" 100% conversion to date for our friends.